Tuesday, February 15, 2011

The Coming Sack Of RAF Trainee Pilots

Quarter Of RAF Trainee Pilots To Be Sacked In Defence Spending Cull -- The Telegraph

A quarter of RAF trainee pilots are to be sacked in a cost-cutting cull that threatens to leave the Armed Forces short of airmen, The Daily Telegraph can disclose.

Up to 100 student pilots will be told the news on Tuesday with some of them only a few hours away from becoming fully qualified to fly fighters, helicopters and transport aircraft.

The cuts will mean the waste of an estimated £300million already paid for training the pilots, plus the cost of redundancies. The training of RAF pilots can cost up to £4million a man.

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